NASW was deeply troubled when it was widely reported that budget employees for the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) were told by their leadership that in preparing their fiscal 2019 budgets, they could not use seven specific words and phrases. The offensive words include vulnerable, entitlement, diversity, transgender, fetus, evidence-based, and science-based. This is extremely problematic because the targeted words help to describe populations and quality control standards that are essential for managing threats to the nation’s public health and well-being.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The National Association of Social Workers (NASW), a
membership organization of more than 120,000 members with a long history of
advocating for the nation’s most vulnerable and underrepresented populations, is
writing in opposition to the confirmation of Don Willett to the U.S. Court of
Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
Judge Willett, a justice on the Texas Supreme Court
since 2005, has held radical positions that have impinged on the rights of
vulnerable and marginalized Americans throughout his career, both on and off the
bench, and NASW opposes this federal lifetime appointment to the Fifth
Circuit...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - As a member of the broad national community of advocates for
economic justice and equity for low and moderate income Americans, the National
Association of Social Workers (NASW) is opposed to the Tax Cut and Jobs Act.
This bill, as written, would produce a windfall for the “super
rich” while decimating safety-net programs that serve low-income elderly,
children and families. The tax cut bill was recently passed by the House of
Representatives and it is now in the hands of the Senate. The Senate’s version
of the tax bill, which retains the massive tax cuts for businesses and the
wealthy, ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The theme for World Aids Day 2017 on December 1 will be “Increasing Impact through
Transparency, Accountability, and Partnerships.”
In elaborating on the theme Ambassador Deborah
L. Birx, the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator and U.S. Special Representative
for Global Health Diplomacy at the U.S. Department of State, said, "We now have the
unprecedented opportunity to change the course of the pandemic. This brings
with it the obligation to ensure that our resources are being used in the most
efficient and effective ways and are having the greatest possible impact.
Accountability and tran...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The National Commission on Correctional Health Care (NCCHC) welcomes Melvin H. Wilson, MBA, LCSW, to its board of directors as the liaison of the National Association of Social Workers. The appointment took effect November 5 during the NCCHC board meeting.
Wilson has worked for NASW since 2006 and for the past five years has served as senior manager in the department of social justice and human rights. In that role, he is in charge of developing and implementing activities related to criminal justice, juvenile justice, immigration reform, economic justice and voting rights. He has extensive experience working with nat...

Association urges Congress to quickly pass legislation to empower women, girls, communities and nations to end violence
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The National Association of Social Workers (NASW) has joined other members of the Coalition to End Violence Against Women and Girls Globally to welcome the introduction of the International Violence Against Women Act (IVAWA) in the Senate.
The legislation was introduced by Sens. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N-H), Susan Collins (R-ME), Robert Menendez (D-NJ) and Johnny Isakson (R-GA). IVAWA makes ending violence against women and girls a top diplomatic, development, and foreign assistance priority by...

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The nation once again is grieving over the deaths of
innocent people in a mass shooting. Last Sunday 26 churchgoers from the
small Texas town of Sutherland Springs were massacred and several others still cling to life.
The youngest victim at the First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs was just 18 months old. The latest mass shooting is even more incomprehensible when we realize that just a month ago a shooter gunned down more than 50 people in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Again, similar to nearly all the mass shootings in this
country, the weapon of choice was a semi-automatic assault rifle.
As the Natio...

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